2019 AFLX Preview

February 18, 2019byDylan Leach

Enter the Battle Dome!

The Bolts.

The Flyers.

Team Deadly.

Team Rampage.

Gatorade Game Changer.

Pink Footy.

Marvel Stadium

It must mean one thing, AFLX is back for one night only in 2019 and with all-star teams selected by captains Patrick Dangerfield (Bolts), Nat Fyfe (Flyers), Jack Riewoldt (Rampage) and Eddie Betts (Deadly) it’s going to be something unique.

While AFLX has had its critics and doubters in the lead up to the tournament, it’s time to get down to business and to work out how to back a winner in it.

Led by the face of AFLX, Geelong’s Patrick Dangerfield, the “Bolts” go into the AFLX tournament as the outsider in what is mostly an even betting market.

In the AFLX draft, it appeared that Dangerfield tended to select Cats players, picking the likes of Tom Hawkins and Mark Bilcavs, but has also managed to add the likes of Steele Sidebottom, Robbie Gray and Andrew Gaff to the team.

There is an element of youth to the “Bolts” team as well with youngsters Jack Billings, Andrew McGrath and Jaidyn Stephenson in the squad.

With the addition of the “Gatorade Game Changer,” it will be fascinating to see just who will be nominated as the player that will be allowed to score double points for the last five minutes of every match.

If this were Supercoach, the midfield in Nat Fyfe’s team would make the salary cap explode.

With Marcus Bontempelli as vice-captain, the “Flyers” also has the likes of Scott Pendlebury, Isaac Heeney, Stephen Coniglio, Travis Boak, Lachie Hunter and Josh Kennedy in the midfield rotation it’s something that could make AFLX worth watching.

This will be another team where the choice of “Gatorade Game Changer” will be interesting who Fyfe will pick as to who will be able to score double points in the last five minutes of the game.